APP Software Development for Automated Animal Sound Recognition

On September 15 a technical meeting took place at the University of Ghent, Belgium between CO.BRA and representatives of the Department of Information Technology to initiate of formal cooperation. The aim is to produce a software for mobile phones for an application to identify automatically recorded characteristic animal sounds from the Pantanal for nature tourism and citizen science. The APP development will be part of a MSc. thesis project of Heleen Cauwels using CO.BRA sound recordings. The project will be supervised by Prof. Paul Devos, Prof. Dick Botteldooren, Research Group WAVES, and CO.BRA team members.